Mold for casting type, spaces, and quads.



No. 852.162. I PATENTED APR. 30, 1907 F. H. BROWN, J. E. HAN RAHAN 6: G. A. BOYD'EN.

MOLD FOR CASTING TYPHSPAGESAND QUADS.

APPLICATION FILED MAY 19. 1905. RENEWED EBB. s, 1907.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFIOE.

FRANK H. BROWN AND JOHN E. HANRAHAN, OF BALTIMORE, AND GEORGE A. BOYDEN, OF MOUNT WASHINGTON, MARYLAND, ASSIGNORS TO NA- TION AL COMPOSITYPE COMPANY, A CORPORATION OF DELAWARE.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented April 30, 1907.

Application filed. May 19, 1905. Renewed February 8, 1907. Serial No. 356,340.

To (ZZZ- whom it may concern.-

Be it known that we, FRANK H. BROWN and JOHN E. HANRAHAN, of the city of Baltimore and State of Maryland, and GEORGE A. BOYDEN, of Mount \Nashington, in the county of Baltimore, State of Maryland, citizens of the United States, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Molds for Gas ting Type, Spaces, and Quads, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to a mold mechanism for casting type bodies, spaces and quads.

It is a well known fact to those skilled in the art of making type that those type-bodies which are provided with a character should be longer than the space or quads which are not provided with characters and which are employed in separating words of a sentence, or one sentence from another.

The present invention has among its objects to provide an improved mold in which the types of different lengthsthose with characters, as well as the shorter spaces or quads, may both be cast.

The broad idea therefore of the present invention is to combine with a type mold, devices or instrumentalities which by entering the mold cavity in a lengthwise or heightwise direction will shorten the cavity so that bodies of different lengths may be cast in the same mold.

lVith these objects therefore in view the accompanying drawing illustrates one form of device for carrying the invention into practical effect without however in any way limiting the invention to the particular devices shown.

Figure 1 illustrates a sectional plan view of the mold parts and ejectors in the operative position. Fig. 2 illustrates a vertical section through the mold parts and matrix and shows the lengthwise reduction in the mold cavity forthe purpose of casting spaces or quads. Fig. 3 illustrates a side elevation of a matrix employed in casting the shorter spaces or quads, and Fig. 4 illustrates an edge view of same.

In the drawing, 1 designates the base block of the mold, the top surface of which in present instance is provided with a longitudinally-extending head, 2. A plate, 8, has position at one side of the base block and serves of the guide-plates 3 and 5 and said nippleplate is provided with a port, 7. It is also to be understood that any preferred form of metal supply device may be employed in connection with the invention and that the molten metal will be supplied through the port, 7.

An ejector, 8, has position on the top surface of the base-block 1 and the ends of said ejector, in the present instance, are designed to form one side Wall of the mold cavity as will hereinafter be more fully described. The ejector 8 is provided at each end with a perforation 9, and the opposite flat longitudinal sides or surfaces of the ejectors are each provided with a groove, 10, which extend from the ends toward the center. The groove at one end of the ejector being on the opposite side from the groove at the other end. These grooves fit, one at a time, over the bead 2 on the base block 1. At end of the ejector 8 the side is provided with a notch, 11,- which reduces the width so that the ejector is narrower at one end than at the opposite end. By this construction and arrangement of ejector thelatter may be reversed so that when it is desired to cast bodies of the standard type-high size the Wider end of the ejector may be employed to serve as one of the walls of the mold cavity and when it is desired to cast bodies either with or without characters, such for example as quads and spaces or short type with characters, the ejector may be reversed so that the narrower end may serve as one of the walls of the mold cavity.

The parts thus far described and in the present instance are arranged with respect to each other to form two right angles sides and one end of the mold cavity, the base block forming one side, the end of the ejector forming a side at right angles to the base block and the guide plates 3 and 5 serving to close the cavity at the end when the molten metal is injected. The parts to coact with those heretofore described to form the other two sides and end of the mold cavity will now be described, it being understood that the same are susceptible of being formed in. E expression in various mechanical l'orms, and

a variety of ways and that the drawings are l we have, for the purpose ol' illustrating the merely illustrative of one particular form of l invention, shown one olsuch l'orms in the device. 1 accompanying drawing; but it is to be dis 5o 5 A mold block, 12, is provided with a side tinctly understood that said drawings are plate, 13, which overlaps the ends of the intended l or the purpose of illustration only guide and nipple plates, 3, 5 and 6, when the andnot as in any w ay delining the limits or parts all come together and th's mold block scope ol' the invention. is also provided with right-angled surfaces, Having thus described our invention what 15, and, 16, which with the end of the ejector we claim as new and desire to secure by liei 8 and the base block, 1, when. the parts are ters Patent is, together, complete the four side walls of the 1. A. type mold provided with a eai'ity. mold cavity, 17. The mold block 12 is also and a matrix movable in a direction parallel provided with a vertically-extending recess, with the length of the cavity and haying a oo 15 18, at one end of the mold cavity and a projection to enter said cavity at tl e end to matrix, 19, its in a holder, 20, in said vertireduce its length. cal recess and forms the other end wall, 21, 2. A type mold comprising a stationiny of the mold cavity. section and a section movable at righ 1 angles The broad idea of the present invention is to the stationary sect-ion whereby to l'oi-ni a or produced by bringing together a con'ibination cavity between said sections, and a mat; in. of devices or instrumentalities by means of carried by one ol iiid sections and having a which the lengths of the mold cavity may be projection which enters the avitv to rednee varied so as to cast types of longer or shorter its length. lengths. In the operation of the devices de- 3. A mold for casting type bodies eom pris- 7o scribed this variation. in the length or height ing the mold sections; an ejeetor eoingling of the bodies is embodied as follows; When with the mold sections to l'orin the mold it is desired to cast spaces or quads or bodies cavity, and a nn'itrix haying a projeei ion of a shorter length than the standard, the which enters one end of said mold cavity to ejector 8 will be reversed so that the narreduce the size ol said cavity in a lengthwise 75 o rower end will have position adjacent the direction.

mold block 1.2 as seen in Fig. 1, and the 4:. A mold in which metal type bodies are matrix shown in Figs. 3 and 4 with a projectto be (:2 st provided with a cavity; an ejeeloi' ing surface, 22, will be inserted in the holder, having one end which is wider than the other 20, and the two then placed in the moldin a direction. lengthwise with respeet to the 80 3 5 block recess 18 so that when the mold parts mold cavity and said ejector capable ol' reare brought together as seen in Fig. 2, the versal end for end, and matrices arranged said cameo or projecting surface 13 on the to coact with the ends oli said ejeetorwliereln. matrix will extend into the mold cavity 17 type bodies of di'li'erent heights may be e; and thus reduce the length of said cavity. in testimony whereof we allix omsigna- 40 The body then produced will be of a shorter tures in presence of itnesses.

length than the standard. It will thus be ii. lllttiii y seen that the longer the projection on the ii il lli matrix the shorter will the mold cavity be- (ii-t i A. litii'l come when the matrix and mold are in the Witnesses: operative condition. lilnnnroon 1 llicxnnnsox,

The inventive idea here involved may find (J. WALTER GWINN. 

